This project was inspired by Magic-1[0]. The construction is entertaining to read[1]. And it is used currently as a web server[2]. What a very fantastic project

This project was inspired by Magic-1[0]. The construction is entertaining to read[1]. And it is used currently as a web server[2]. What a very fantastic project! Quoting from the project history: In the beginning.... Magic-1 really began during a lunchtime discussion with Ken Sumrall at Vito's Pizza in Sunnyvale, CA sometime in the Spring of 2001. I was complaining to Ken about how as a compiler writer I was woefully ignorant about how CPU hardware really worked. I hadn't taken any electronics classes in college, and was only vaguely aware of what transistors, resistors and capacitors were. Ken recalled an old series of magazine articles by Forrest Mims on building a very simple CPU from TTL parts, and suggested I read it. Over the next few weeks, I tracked down those articles, as well as Mims' "Understanding Digital Computers" and a textbook by Albert Paul Malvino, "Digital Computer Electronics." I read them all, and when I next had lunch with Ken at Vito's I reported back that it all seemed much clearer now - so much so that I thought I could even build a CPU myself. Then Ken said, "well, why don't you?". Why not, indeed? And so the Magic-1 project began. [0] - http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ [1] - http://www.homebrewcpu.com/construction.htm http://www.homebrewcpu.com/construction.htm [2] - http://www.magic-1.org/ http://www.magic-1.org/